More than human humanism
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Simone Weil and a myth of the Okanagan
Simone Weil and a myth of the Okanagan. A spiritual journey through the Great Revelation.
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Butterflies
This post is my translation of an excerpt from the short article by Primo Levi entitled “Butterflies” in which he describes an exhibition on the butterflies he visited in a museum. Why are butterflies beautiful? Certainly not for the pleasure of human beings, as Darwin’s opponents claimed: there were butterflies at least a hundred million…
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International day of Forests and Poetry, March 21, 2019
What do trees and poems have in common? What do they teach us? How can we listen to them? Here are some enlightening reflections from Hermann Hesse’s Wandering and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature. “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests…
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“The Wisdom of the Hand and the memory of a Mediterranean More than Human Humanism”
This is an essay published in Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature. The Denatured Wild Ed. by Pasquale Verdicchio. Lanham-Boulder-New York-London: Lexinton Books, 2016. 1-30. In my essay I first address the documentaries that Vittorio De Seta shot in Sicily between 1954 and 1955 to document, with a certain urgency, the work of peasants, tuna-fishermen and sword-fishermen, in a world that,…
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Il mondo visto da Sud e “La prima volta.” Una conversazione con Franco Cassano
Il 13 aprile 2013 presso l’Università dell’ Oregon in Eugene si è svolto il trentatresimo convegno annuale dell’American Association of Italian Studies. Franco Cassano era in quell’occasione uno degli oratori delle sessioni plenarie ed è stato al centro di una tavola rotonda attorno al suo pensiero che ha avuto come protagonisti alcuni studiosi particolarmente impegnati…
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Vico more than human humanism
Abstract of a theoretical article on Giambattista Vico’s More than Human Humanism with a linl to the article.
Massimo Lollini 